Smashing Magazine

JUNE 26, 2019

What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites. What I didn’t know before writing it was that her agency was struggling to optimize their mobile websites for speed. In this case, my website is “slow”, even when served on 4G networks. Suzanne Scacca.

Website 111

Website Speed Mobile Design 111

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

Running a website speed test can help to determine what factors may be slowing your pages down. Synthetic Monitoring: Continuous Website Performance Monitoring. As if website speed wasn’t enough, Google has recently announced that user metrics will become a core ranking factor by 2021. Dotcom-Monitor Website Monitoring.

Website 92

Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Dynatrace

JUNE 21, 2024

Define monitoring goals and user experience metrics Next, define what aspects of a digital experience you want to monitor and improve — such as website performance, application responsiveness, or user engagement — and prioritize what to measure for each application.

Best Practices 264

Best Practices Monitoring Metrics Transportation 264

CSS Wizardry

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What we really want to do, alongside capturing good benchmark- and more permanent data with WebPageTest, is interact with and inspect a site slightly more realtime. Here is how my actual iPhone on a throttled connection deals with my website. Testing in Safari’s DevTools.

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Network Mobile Performance Traffic 296

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

A perfect OWASP benchmark score for injection attacks – 100% accuracy and zero false positives – impressively proves the precision of our approach. For more information, visit our website to watch the demo or read our previous Application Security blog post s. To learn more, see Application Security in Dynatrace Documentation.

Traffic 246

Traffic Benchmarking Innovation Java 246

Smashing Magazine

MARCH 2, 2021

This requires your website or application to be heavily optimized for mobile. If you’d like to dive deeper into the performance of Android and iOS devices, you can check Geekbench Android Benchmarks for Android smartphones and tablets, and iOS Benchmarks for iPhones and iPads. A performance benchmark Lighthouse is well-known.

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Mobile Testing Website Benchmarking 142

Dynatrace

MAY 30, 2020

To deliver outstanding customer experience for your applications and websites, you need reliable benchmarks that measure what good customer experience looks like. Let’s illustrate the threshold setting using the Dynatrace website as an example. Dynatrace news.

Metrics 182

Metrics Performance Benchmarking Monitoring 182

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Depending on how resilient the calling system is, a failure in a Lambda function can potentially take down an entire website or application. When we set out to create the new Lambda extension, we benchmarked other dedicated Lambda monitoring solutions that were already on the market. How Dynatrace compares to other solutions.

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Lambda AWS Monitoring Serverless 278

Testsigma

JANUARY 12, 2021

You reload the browser and wait for the website to load. Checking the website for browser compatibility ensures that your audience is not alienated from the amazing features of your web app–simply because it didn’t work on their device. When it does, it does not feel right. The Need For Responsiveness. Utilize Automation Testing.

Website 65

Website Benchmarking Operating System Testing Tools 65

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2019

With Dynatrace Synthetic you can deliver clean-room performance benchmark and availability monitoring for your business. your website or application) needs to accept traffic from the IP addresses of our synthetic locations. Dynatrace news. In terms of Dynatrace Synthetic, this means: Your monitored resource (i.e.,

Scalability 29

Scalability Traffic Benchmarking Monitoring 29

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

As you know, there are many metrics that determine a website’s page speed, and we can’t look at just one of them to determine how performant our site is. By analyzing the data from Backlinko.com and their Page Speed Stats article, we’ll look to answer these questions: What size should be a website be?

Best Practices 105

Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

Speed Curve

JANUARY 27, 2025

These numbers should NOT be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Takeaways I meet with so many people who build and optimize websites. I looked at the top 1M sites, focusing on median and 90th percentile numbers. This is to try to understand how a "typical" page might perform, as well as pages in the longtail. Possibly not.

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Mobile Best Practices Google Metrics 97

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

By running basic optimizations of our videos before adding them to our websites, we can prevent these issues from occurring for good — well, most of them. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos. There is a solution though! Real-World Data. Large preview ).

Network 144

Network Speed Website Mobile 144

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render.

Mobile 145

Mobile Google Benchmarking Metrics 145

HammerDB

JANUARY 5, 2019

Some opinions claim that “Benchmarks are meaningless”, “benchmarks are irrelevant” or “benchmarks are nothing like your real applications” However for others “Benchmarks matter,” as they “account for the processing architecture and speed, memory, storage subsystems and the database engine.”

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Benchmarking Database Social Media Scalability 40

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Fight regressions and stay fast It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. Imagine that your website is a vault containing billions of dollars in jewels. With SpeedCurve Synthetic , you can monitor any other website in the same way that you can monitor your own website.

Benchmarking 72

Benchmarking Metrics Website Testing 72

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database uptime and availability Monitoring database uptime and availability is crucial as it directly impacts the availability of critical data and the performance of applications or websites that rely on the MySQL database. This KPI is also directly related to Query Performance and helps improve it.

Performance 135

Performance Monitoring Traffic Database 135

Rigor

JUNE 14, 2019

But there is some information that is universal for all websites – and everyone has to start somewhere, right? Total Content Size is an easy, high-level way to see the size of a website. You can, if you like, dig a little deeper into the size of first-party content vs. third-party when monitoring this metric.). Why track it?

Metrics 101

Metrics Performance Speed Ecommerce 101

HammerDB

MAY 24, 2019

HammerDB has increased dramatically in popularity and use and has been identified as the industry default for database benchmarking illustrating both the popularity of open source and TPC based benchmarks. The first step towards this goal is the recently announced move of the HammerDB source code to the TPC-Council GitHub repository.

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Code Benchmarking Open Source Website 49

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

Reading time 1 min Why share the library of the web performance books while there’s a substantial collection of fantastic websites and articles on the net? High Performance Websites. Even Faster Websites. A collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers. Learning HTTP/2.

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Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 5, 2022

With entrance into the industry being so easy and lack of proper benchmarking (Note: this is somewhat contradictory to point 2, but more on that later) around what makes a good designer, software engineer, or product manager, we’re forced to face the facts that it’s a recipe for poor quality products. I was once stuck in a full-time job.

Design 132

Design Website Social Media Best Practices 132

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics. What is the "performance poverty line"?

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Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 128

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Visit website 2. Visit website 3. Visit website 4. Visit website 5. Visit website 6. Visit website 7. Visit website 8. Visit website 9. HTML5 Doctor HTML5 Doctor covers many of the features and topics that you might have missed when moving from HTML to HTML5.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

CSS - Tricks

JUNE 5, 2020

At that time, I was working as a freelance website performance consultant. I wanted to compress every last possible byte for my clients’ websites in a drive to make them faster, but using pre-compression and allowing clients to update files on demand simultaneously was not always easy. Taking matters into my own hands. Try it yourself!

Cache 83

Cache Website Servers Open Source 83

Abhishek Tiwari

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Setting up Varnish for Statamic was quite easy and my website performance improved drastically ( you can see load and performance testing benchmarks here ). Few months back I managed to get Statamic working with Varnish. One of the biggest challenges was Varnish cache invalidation on content update.

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Cache Benchmarking Website Performance Website 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. When a website has a prefetch link, the browser will silently download the content and store it within its cache.

Cache 141

Cache Performance Servers Architecture 141

Speed Curve

AUGUST 8, 2017

They don't represent the "typical" website, because there's no such thing as a typical website. These numbers should not in any way even remotely be taken as a benchmark for your own site. Custom font use continues to increase : 69% of the top 500,000 websites use them. They represent trends – that's all.

Metrics 85

Metrics Website Speed Benchmarking 85

HammerDB

MAY 6, 2021

This year Steve Shaw will be presenting HammerDB: A better Way to Benchmark Your Open Source Database on Thursday, May 13th 2021 at 13.30-14.30 You can visit the event website for more information and to view the full conference schedule. Percona Live ONLINE, THE Open Source Database Conference, is taking place May 12-13, 2021.

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Open Source Benchmarking Database Website 52

Speed Curve

JULY 2, 2013

SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available. Web Performance Benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Real user monitoring dashboard on New Relic.

Benchmarking 40

Benchmarking Performance Website Analytics 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 13, 2023

My kids love LEGO, too, which means that every year I find myself spending a fair bit of time on the LEGO website during the holidays. We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. I love LEGO. Those are already big wins.

Performance 78

Performance Retail Benchmarking Ecommerce 78

KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. Just because everything works perfectly during production testing doesn’t mean that will be the case when your website is flooded with traffic.

Testing Tools 55

Testing Tools Best Practices Performance Testing Testing 55

CSS - Tricks

APRIL 1, 2021

Google’s industry benchmarks from 2018 also provide a striking breakdown of how each second of loading affects bounce rates. Speed is also something Google considers when ranking your website placement on mobile. Go ahead, briefly look at the things that Lighthouse says are wrong with the website. Improvement #1: Redirects.

Cache 94

Cache Social Media Media Website 94

Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

Additionally, the platform continuously monitors data through benchmarking functionalities providing valuable insights through its data analytics tools. One key feature that sets ScaleGrid apart is its real-time resource optimization abilities that cater to the diverse database needs within different types of cloud workloads.

Cloud 130

Cloud Virtualization Storage Efficiency 130

Rigor

JUNE 4, 2019

“How fast is a website?” You can track and trend on our Performance KPI chart, create an interactivity centered data block, or even benchmark yourself with Alexa’s Top 5000 best-performing sites through the Executive Dashboard. While it’s a simple question on the surface, it can be challenging to answer.

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Metrics Speed Benchmarking Website 71

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I then analyzed performance during the benchmark ([active benchmarking]), and used other benchmarks to confirm findings. See my previous post on [working set size estimation] and the full [website]. To explore these I wrote a simple microbenchmark where I could vary the syscall rate and the working set size ([source]).

Performance 72

Performance Benchmarking Cache Tuning 72

Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

An overview of tools for measuring performance, uptime monitoring, real user monitoring and performance benchmarking. How to make your website faster. Competitive Benchmarking SpeedCurve. Bandwidth, latency and it's fundamental impact on the speed of the web. Optimization tools and techniques. Muti-device challenges. References.

Speed 40

Speed Benchmarking Mobile Website 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Lots of new videos!

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52